Liz he was the most famous visitor in Hong Kong, his passage through passport control may have reflected the acquiescence of the Hong Kong authorities to the reported request of China to be rid of Snowden by June 23rd. All we know for certain is that Hong Kong airport police did...
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At the heart of Mr. Snowden’s narrative was his claim that while he may have incidentally “touched” other data in his search of NSA files, he took only documents that exposed the malfeasance of the NSA and gave all of them to journalists. Yet even as Mr. Snowden’s narrative was...
182 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS before he left Hong Kong in June 2013. Why would Appelbaum keep it secret for more than four months? The same pressure to publish would also apply to the journalists Snowden had dealt with in Hong Kong. If Snowden had given Poitras, Greenwald,...
PA session because, to do so, would be revealing classified information he had swore to protect. No doubt other intelligence officers find themselves in a similar bind in discussing secret matters. This suggests that there is a risk in accepting statements made by the intelligen...
oF countries. Like Snowden, she also deemed herself, tongue and cheek, a “super hero.” In this sense, her Internet avatar, was a match for Snowden’s “Wolfking Awesomefox,” In Japan, Mills and Snowden spent time with another American couple, Jennie and Joseph Chamberlin, who als...
…y Everything a User Does on the Internet,” Guardian, July 31, 2013. 291 Further enabling furtive Internet: Appelbaum, “Edward Snowden Interview.” 291 These precise tips: Joseph Menn, “Exclusive: Secret Contract Tied NSA and Security Industry Pioneer,” Reuters, Dec. 20, 2013. 2...
…h his new wife-to-be. This left Snowden with only one male family member in the area, his maternal grandfather, Admiral Edward J. Barrett. Unlike Snowden’s virtual career on the Internet, where at one point Snowden invented for himself two fantasy children, Admiral Barrett became...
18 CHAPTER ONE The Great Divide “What you’ve seen so far is just the tip of the iceberg.” -- retired Admiral Michael McConnell, vice chairman of Booz Allen Hamilton On June 9, 2013, the Guardian, the British newspaper known for the quality and gravity of its reporting posted...
187 The U.Ss also had the ability to track Snowden’s movements via the cell phones of his lawyers and other confederates after he surfaced. This tracking could all be done by the NSA. What the U.S. lacked was any practical means to capture a high-profile intelligence defector in...
String Puller | 63 spersed clips from her short film in his keynote address at the Chaos Computer Club convention of hacktivists in Berlin that month. Snowden also closely followed her rise in this world. By simply googling Poitras’s name in January 2013, he would have learned...
Epilogue | 303 The ugly part of the equation is the rampant growth of the pub- lic’s distrust of the institutions of government in America. Accord- ing to recent polls, 4 out of 5 Americans distrust the government. Snowden did not create this new age of distrust, but his disclos...
268 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS “T was impressed by how few takes he needed to shoot my scene,” he answered. “How did you come to be Snowden’s lawyer?” I asked. “Snowden picked me from a roster of fifteen lawyers with which he had been provided.” Because Snowden did not sp...
33 than six weeks. He had taken the medical leave on May 18, 2013 left the country by plane. By June 7 he had become the NSA’s main suspect. Snowden had been hired to work there as an outside contractor by Booz Allen Hamilton, a private company owned by a hedge fund, which manag...
The Keys to the Kingdom Are Missing | 175 rov, had spent almost six months negotiating with Hillary Clinton’s State Department a one-on-one summit between President Obama and President Putin. Not only would this summit be a diplomatic coup for Russia, but also it would add to Pu...
174 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS SHEVARDNADZE: SO he [Snowden] does have some materials that haven’t been made public yet? KucHERENA: Certainly. Shevardnadze asked the next logical question: “Why did Russia get involved in this whole thing if it got nothing out of it?” “Snow...